10-letter words that end in te
- glauconite — a greenish micaceous mineral consisting essentially of a hydrous silicate of potassium, aluminum, and iron and occurring in greensand, clays, etc.
- glycophyte — any plant that will only grow healthily in soils with a low content of sodium salts
- glyoxylate — a salt or ester of glyoxylic acid.
- glyphosate — a compound, C 3 H 8 NO 5 P, used to kill a wide range of weeds.
- gnetophyte — Any of the plant division Gnetophyta, consisting of woody plants that differ from other gymnosperms in having vessel elements (which transport water within the plant) as found in flowering plants.
- gnotobiote — a gnotobiotic animal.
- go private — to restore private ownership of a corporation by buying back publicly held stock
- gold plate — a thin coating of gold, usually produced by electroplating
- gold-plate — to coat (base metal) with gold, especially by electroplating.
- governante — a housekeeper
- grace note — a note not essential to the harmony or melody, added as an embellishment, especially an appoggiatura.
- grand jete — a jump or jeté, preceded by a grand battement or high kick, in which a dancer leaps from one leg and lands on the other.
- graptolite — any colonial animal of the extinct class Graptolithina, most common in the Ordovician and Silurian Periods, thought to be related to the pterobranchs.
- gray skate — a skate, Raja batis, of coastal seas off Great Britain.
- grey skate — a species of skate, Dipturus batis
- grey-state — (of a fabric or material) not yet dyed
- gripe site — a website through which people can express their contempt for a particular person, organization, pop group, etc
- guestimate — to estimate without substantial basis in facts or statistics.
- habilitate — to clothe or dress.
- half-caste — a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of mixed racial or ethnic descent.
- half-plate — a size of plate measuring 61⁄2 × 41⁄4 inches
- half-white — of the color of pure snow, of the margins of this page, etc.; reflecting nearly all the rays of sunlight or a similar light.
- halloysite — a refractory clay mineral similar in composition to kaolinite.
- halogenate — to treat or combine with a halogen.
- hard paste — true porcelain, made with kaolin, feldspar, quartz, or petuntse.
- heart rate — the number of heartbeats per minute.
- heliophyte — a plant that grows best in full sunlight.
- hematocyte — hemocyte.
- hemizygote — an individual having only one of a given pair of genes.
- hepatocyte — a cell of the main tissue of the liver; liver cell.
- hereticate — to declare as heresy or as a heretic
- heulandite — a white or transparent, colorless mineral of the zeolite family, hydrous calcium aluminum silicate, CaAl 2 Si 7 O 18 ⋅6H 2 O, occurring in basic volcanic rocks in the form of crystals with a pearly luster.
- histiocyte — A stationary phagocytic cell present in connective tissue.
- home plate — the base at which the batter stands and which a base runner must reach safely in order to score a run, typically a five-sided slab of whitened rubber set at ground level at the front corner of the diamond.
- home state — the state where a person comes from, or where they live
- homogenate — a mixture that has been homogenized.
- homologate — to approve; confirm or ratify.
- homozygote — an organism with identical pairs of genes with respect to any given pair of hereditary characters, and therefore breeding true for that character.
- huebnerite — a reddish-brown mineral of the wolframite group, manganese tungstate, MnWO 4 , a minor ore of tungsten.
- hydrazoate — a salt of hydrazoic acid; azide.
- hydriodate — (obsolete, inorganic chemistry) iodide.
- hydrophyte — a plant that grows in water or very moist ground; an aquatic plant.
- hygrophyte — a plant that thrives in wet or very moist ground.
- hyperacute — sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
- hypohalite — (chemistry) any salt of a hypohalous acid, having a general formula M(OX)n.
- ignimbrite — a fine-grained volcanic rock consisting mainly of welded shards of feldspar and quartz.
- illaqueate — to ensnare
- illistrate — Misspelling of illustrate.
- illiterate — unable to read and write: an illiterate group.
- illuminate — to make lucid or clear; throw light on (a subject).